Kirby is thrown into the mix a bit here, the interviewer does reflect a bit on Jack’s part in Marvel history, but ultimately the interviewer slams Jack’s fans, then when he gets to actually interview Lee, the interviewer chickens out and doesn’t even bring Jack up once in his lame “interview” with Lee. Whatever happened to the days when journalists came prepared with a list of questions designed to try and help readers learn something new?

I love Stan Lee’s quote about how he would have been “wealthy” if he had worried about ownership of the Marvel characters back in the 60s. Isn’t Lee worth over 10 million dollars? I guess that’s not “wealthy” in Stan Lee’s world?

Great example of Jack painting with a pencil. Jack’s shading really contributes to the illusion of movement in this image, all the lines lead the eye from the bottom left-hand side of the page upwards to the top right-hand corner (except that little area under the spaceship) — this effect was usually lost when Jack’s inkers tended to fill in those areas with all-black.

The panel you used was from Not Brans Ecch #3, October 1967. Attached is the revised pnael from Not Brand Ecch #10 (“The Worst of Not Brand Ecch!”), December 1968. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Apparently it was still too soon to have his image in a satirical comic book.